We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
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It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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